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Saudi’s top clerical body condemns Mohammad cartoons

January 16, 2015

Saudi Arabia’s top clerical council, the only body in the kingdom authorised to issue Islamic legal opinions or fatwas, on Friday denounced the publication of “disrespectful drawings” of the Prophet Mohammad. “Injuring the feelings of Muslims with these drawings… will not achieve the right aim. It will serve extremists who are looking for justification for murder and terrorism,” Fahad bin Saad al-Majid of the Council of Senior Scholars was quoted as saying in a statement carried on state news agency SPA.